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RKS Literature: The Cruel Mr. Creakle Looks for His Next Victim (Charles Dickens)

“Here I sit at the desk again, watching his eye, as he rules out a ciphering book, with a pocket handkerchief. I have plenty to do. I don’t watch his eye in idleness but because I am morbidly attracted to it, in a dread desire to know what he will do next, and whether itContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Cruel Mr. Creakle Looks for His Next Victim (Charles Dickens)”

RKS Literature: The Guillotine Knitter (Charles Dickens)

“There were many women at the time, upon whom the time laid a dreadfully disfiguring hand; but there was not one among them more to be dreaded than this ruthless woman, now taking her way along the streets. Of a strong and fearless character, of shrewd sense and readiness, of great determination, of that kindContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Guillotine Knitter (Charles Dickens)”

RKS Literature: Why the Aristocrats Heads Rolled in the French Revolution (Charles Dickens)

“We were so robbed by the man that stands there, as all we common dogs are by those Superior beings-taxed by him without mercy, obliged to work for him without pay, obliged to grind our corn at his mill, obliged to feed scores of his tame birds on our wretched crops, and forbidden for ourContinue reading “RKS Literature: Why the Aristocrats Heads Rolled in the French Revolution (Charles Dickens)”

RKS Literature: No Place for a Young Man in a London Bank! (Dickens)

“Cramped in all kinds of dim cupboards at Telleson’s the oldest of men carried on the business gravely. When they took a young man into Telleson’s London house, they hid him somewhere until he was old. They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Telleson flavour and blueContinue reading “RKS Literature: No Place for a Young Man in a London Bank! (Dickens)”

RKS Literature: The Responsible Jury (Dickens)

“That, for these reasons, the jury being a loyal jury (as he knew they were), and being a responsible jury (as they knew they were), must positively find the prisoner Guilty, and make an end of him, whether they liked it or not. That, they could never lay their heads upon their pillows; that theyContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Responsible Jury (Dickens)”

RKS Literature: Every Human Being a Profound Secret (Dickens)

“A wonderful fact to reflect on, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret: that every room in every one of them encloses itsContinue reading “RKS Literature: Every Human Being a Profound Secret (Dickens)”

RKS Literature: Dreadful Engines That Make the Children Old (Dickens)

“Even the sunburnt faces of gipsy children, half naked though they be, suggest a drop of comfort. It is a pleasant thing to see that the sun has been there; to know that the air and light are on them every day; to feel that they are children, and lead children’s lives; that if theirContinue reading “RKS Literature: Dreadful Engines That Make the Children Old (Dickens)”

RKS Literature: The Savage Intoxication of the Moment (Dickens)

“The excitement of play, hot rooms, and glaring lights, was not calculated to allay the fever of the time. In that giddy whirl of noise and confusion, the men were delirious. Who thought of money, ruin, or the morrow, in the savage intoxication of the moment? More wine was called for, glass after glass wasContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Savage Intoxication of the Moment (Dickens)”

RKS Literature: Crafty Scoundrels and Heaven (Dickens)

“Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth, or rather – for walking implies, at least, an erect position and the bearing of a man – that ever crawled and crept through life by its dirtiest and narrow ways, will gravely jot down in diaries the events of the day, and keep aContinue reading “RKS Literature: Crafty Scoundrels and Heaven (Dickens)”

RKS Literature: Love and The Imagination: Charles Dickens

“Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination, which has a long memory, and will survive for a considerable amount of time on very slight and sparing food. Thus, it is, that it often attains its most luxuriant growth in separation and under circumstances of the utmost difficulty; and thus itContinue reading “RKS Literature: Love and The Imagination: Charles Dickens”